The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 116
‘I think, sir,’ says the prince, ‘it was only good manner to wait to be asked.’
Who acts: I, sky · What happens: think, say, be, wait, ask · To what, where: prince, good manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 manner | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 manner | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 manner | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 manner | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 manner | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manner | amod |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wait | mark |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 manner | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 asked | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | aux:pass |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wait | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | sir vocative | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | sky | good manner | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · passive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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